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ARTSPEAK RADIO is a live radio program on KKFI that airs every Wednesday from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Host Maria Vasquez Boyd serves up information about the visual and literary arts community including live interviews with artists, writers, and performers.
Wednesday October 2, 2019, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes author/artist Danna York, artist/designer Whitney Manney, and Ada Koch & Marissa Starke with Kansas City Artists Coalition.
DANNA YORK KC native, is an artist/author of a children’s book, To the Cider Mill. Readers discover apples, pumpkins, and scarecrows in this delightful tale of an autumn trip to the cider mill. This interactive book invites children to draw along & become part of the book’s illustrations-perhaps they may become an author and artist too!
York homeschooled her three children using art in all subjects. She continues to teach art encouraging individuals to express themselves while learning basic art technics.
To the Cider Mill is widely distributed around the country in bookshops, museums and cider mills. Locally they can be purchased at The Learning Tree, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Rainy Day Books, KD’s in Lee’s Summit, Deanna Rose Farm, Dunn’s cider mill, Louisburg Cider Mill, and The Brookside Toy and Science Store.
Danna York also has 2 signed copies of her book, To the Cider Mill to give away on ARTSPEAK RADIO!
WHITNEY MANNEY-A Kansas City, MO native, graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 with a BFA in Fibers. With a desire to create art in a wearable format, Manney creates garments and textile designs under her independent label WHITNEYMANNEY. Manney’s work has been featured in major Kansas City press outlets and numerous art/fashion blogs. As a 2017 AltCap Your Business, 2015 M-AAA Artistic Innovations, 2013 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant recipient, Manney has made an impact in the community through teaching partnerships with the HALO Foundation and various area schools. Her collections have been retailed at boutiques/stores, including Halls Kansas City and showcased in more than a dozen local/regional runway and gallery shows including solo exhibitions at The Box Gallery & UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City Fashion Week, Saint Louis Fashion Week and Mulvane Art Museum at Washburn University. Manney is currently a resident artist at The Drugstore Studios in Westport Kansas City operating her eponymous fashion label. Creating a narrative between color and pattern is a signature of Manney’s work, “My job isn’t done until everybody in the world believes fashion is art”
www.whitneymanney.com
ADA KOCH-MARISSA STARKE- After 33 years in the River Market, the Artists Coalition has moved to a new location at 3200 Gillham Road Kansas City, MO 64109. We are thrilled to join the Midtown and Tower East communities and look forward to integrating ourselves into the grassroots creative neighborhood that has been developing over the past several years. We believe that this is the perfect location for KCAC to continue our mission of empowering artists at all stages in their careers, to exhibit innovative and compelling art, to provide educational resources for artists and to serve the community of Kansas City.
Our new location will allow us to continue to host exhibitions in two gallery spaces that will provide intimate and meaningful exhibitions that continue to propel artists to the next level. In addition to exhibition space, KCAC will begin a brand-new adventure…ARTIST STUDIOS! October 2019, the Kansas City Artist Coalition will offer 8 – 10 artist studios to help alleviate some of the recent need for affordable artist spaces.
New adventures and exciting times are in store for the KCAC so be sure to mark your calendars for many things to come.
The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC or Artists Coalition) is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness in Kansas City and the surrounding region, and supports the professional growth of artists. The Kansas City Artists Coalition is an artist-centered, artist-run alternative space that presents a variety of exhibitions of contemporary artists’ work in its galleries as well as educational programming for artists on business and legal issues.
Kansas City Artists Coalition is located at 3200 Gillham Rd. KCMO 64109
www.kansascityartistscoalition.org
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